116 HYDROPSYCHIDiE. 



Maxillary palpi with the fiflh joint long, filiform : antennae 

 nearly filiform, rather stoul, almost as long as the wings : fore-tibiae 

 with two very short spurs at the tips; middle tibiae with a pair of 

 long spurs at the tips ; hind tibios with two pairs of long spurs, one 

 at three-fourths of the length, the other at the tips. 



1. Philanisus plebeius. 



Fulvus ; antennis pedibusque testaceis ; alee anticce subcinerea; fusco 

 maculake, posticce subhyalincE. 



Male. — Tawny, thinly clothed with tawny hairs : antennae tes- 

 taceous, rather stout, slightly setaceous, much longer than the body : 

 legs testaceous, long ; fore-tibise without spurs ; hinder tibiae with 

 two pairs of long spurs, one pair near the tips, the other at the tips : 

 abdomen with two appendages at the tip : wings narrow ; fore-wings 

 slightly gray, with pale brown marks or interrupted bauds : hind- 

 wings subhyaline. Length of the body 2\ — 2| lines ; of the wings 

 7 — 8^ lines. 



a, b. New Zealand. Presented by Dr. Sinclair. 



Genus 8. APHELOCHEIRA. 



Antennae alis breviores. Tibias anticae bicalcaratae. 



Aphelocheira, Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Mand. vi. 179. 

 Hydropsyche p., Pictet. 

 Diplectrona, Westiv. 



1. Aphelocheika flavo-maculata. 



Obscure fusca ; abdominis segmenta marginibus pallidis ; aloe 

 cinereo-fusc(B, antictB obsolete luleo maculata;. Long. 2^ — 2| ; 

 alar. 6 — 8 lin. 



Phryganea unibrosa, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, ii. 910, 2L Faun. 



Suec. 1498. De Vill. Ent. Liyin. iii. 35, 26. Oliv. Enc. Meth. 



548, 40. Zett. Ins. Lapp. 1069, 36. 

 Hydropsvche flavo-maculata? Pictet, Rech. Phryg. 220, 29, pi. 19, 



f.2.' 

 Aphelocheira flavo-maculata, Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Mand. vi. 179, 



1, pi. 32, f. 3. 



England. 



